Charles Marie Raymond d'Arenberg

Charles Marie Raymond d'Arenberg (Enghien, 1 April 1721  – Enghien, 17 August 1778) was the fifth Duke of Arenberg, 11th Duke of Aarschot and an Austrian Field Marshal.^[1]

Biography

Charles Marie was the eldest son of Duke Leopold Philippe d'Arenberg and Donna Maria Francesca Pignatelli. His sister was Marie Victoire d'Arenberg, wife of Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden.

Charles Marie joined his father's 1743 campaign in the War of Austrian Succession, first as Lieutenant-Colonel and later as Colonel of the second Walloon Infantery Regiment, which he had raised personally. He commanded this regiment in the 1744 and 1745 campaigns, until he became Colonel of the Baden-Baden Regiment. One year later he became Major General. In 1748, he played an important role in the defence of Maastricht against the French.

Charles Marie also became Grand-Bailli of Hainaut and Mons in 1740.

In the first years of the Seven Years' War he was active in the Bohemian theater of war. He participated in the Battle of Prague (1757) and the many battles that followed.^[2]

In 1758 he was promoted to Feldzeugmeister. On 14 October that year he played a crucial role in the victorious Battle of Hochkirch as commander of the right wing of the Austrian Army. For this he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa. In the 1759 campaign he commanded several Army Corps, and was defeated near Dresden on 29 October by Prussian troops under General Wunsch. He was praised for his actions in the lost Battle of Torgau on 3 November 1760, in which he was severely wounded.

These wounds meant the end of his active career and he retired. In 1776 he was admitted to the Geheimrat and he was made Field Marshal in 1777.

He married in 1748 with Louise Margaret, hereditary daughter of Count Louis Engelbert von der Mark und Schleide.^[3]
They had eight children, amongst whom Louis Engelbert, 7th Duke of Arenberg (1750–1820).

Notes

1. ^ Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol.2, (1911), 452.
2. ^ Millar, Simon and Adam Hook, Kolin 1757: Frederick the Great's first defeat, (Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2001), 31,33,85.
3. ^ Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol.2, 452

References

• Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911.
• Millar, Simon and Adam Hook, Kolin 1757: Frederick the Great's first defeat, Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2001.

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.

Further reading

• Arenberg Foundation
• Genealogy

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Name	Arenberg, Charles Marie Raymond Of
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Date of birth	1 April 1721
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